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HERNDON, Va. (AP) — Fairfax County police are investigating what they say is a dangerous incident in which someone shone a bright light into the agency’s helicopter. The department said Tuesday that the incident occurred…

WASHINGTON – Cable customers who lost their service this winter thinking it was due to a power outage may have thieves to blame. Attached to power poles throughout Northern Virginia, batteries kept going missing; in Reston,…

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A State Department official has been granted bond and will be free pending trial on charges he solicited a minor online. A judge in Fairfax County on Friday granted 44-year-old Daniel…

The Tysons Partnership has lowered the volume on its plan to shout “Tysons” from a tall water tower. In its original pitch, the partnership proposed to affix a pair of 948-square-foot signs to the 97-foot-tall,…

WASHINGTON — Improperly discarded cigarettes are blamed for four accidental fires in Fairfax County, Virginia in a week. The most recent fire early Sunday caused $173,000 in damage to a town house in the Lorton…

WASHINGTON — An incorrect High Occupancy Vehicle-lane sign had drivers on Interstate 66 confused Monday morning. A sign for the HOV lanes on eastbound I-66 at U.S. 50 said all lanes were open to traffic…

WASHINGTON — An 85-year-old woman was killed trying to cross the road near a Virginia shopping center Thursday night. She’s been identified as Adela Antayhua by police. Officer Shelley Broderick, of the Fairfax County Police,…

WASHINGTON — Police have released new details surrounding the death of a 37-year-old Alexandria, Virginia, woman who died after deputies used a stun gun on her while she was in custody. On Thursday, Fairfax County…

WASHINGTON — Students are lashing out on social media after Fairfax County Public Schools failed to close or delay schools Thursday — a day that the region is getting blasted by some of the coldest air…

WASHINGTON — Add “viral video” to Sgt. Blake Johnson’s resume. From his wheelchair he made an amazing half-court shot at the Army Regionals wheelchair basketball final last Friday at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. First seen on…